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Name: Mahi Arora
Email: mahi@deepakarora.net
Field: Bollywood dance School
Address: South Windsor, CT
Telephone: 860 538 3533
Misc. Info:Boys and Girls, learn how to dance like your favorite Bollywood stars!
· Open to Boys & Girls through age 14
· 1 Session per week for 7 weeks
· 1 Hour per session
· Just $50 for the whole package!
Name: Kumar Das
Email: sandeepkowtha@yahoo.co.in
Field: Indian Carnatic Music
Address: Apt # 3 Bridgeport Ct. 06604
Telephone: 404-895-6694
Misc. Info: I am Carnatic vocal certificate holder Started my Masters in University of Bridgeport. I completed my graduation in india and given many shows in television. I am very much intrested in Carnatic music field and want to teach students who are intrested in carnatic vocal.
Name: Kumar Das (Doug Echols)
Email: kdasmusic@yahoo.com
Field: Tabla
Address:
Telephone: 203 494-7935
Misc. Info: I am tabla player finished my undergrad in University of Bridgeport in performance major with tabla major. I also studied western classical music as well. I teach Ct, NY and play Indian classical music, jazz as well.I am giving tabla lesson in tristate area you may contact on phone or can email me. thank you!!
Name: Aditi Deo
Email: deo.adi@gmail.com
Field: Hindustani vocals
Address: New Haven, CT
Telephone:
Misc Info: I am an ethnomusicologist with research focus on India,
especially Khayal. I have trained in the Gwalior style. I am willing
to teach beginners and intermediate level students. I am also eager to
interact with students from backgrounds in other musics. Lesson rates
negotiable. Also contact me if you have background in any classical
Indian music and would like a co-riyazee.
Name: Kashyap Jani: Shyam Kedar School of Indian Music
Email: kashyapjani@bigfoot.com
Field: Tabla, Sitar, Keyboard , Vocal
Address: Kashyap Jani: Shyam Kedar School of Indian Music Address : 327 Broad street City : Bridgeport State : CT PostalCode : 06604 Country : USA Fax : (203)336-0765 :
Telephone: Phone : (203)335-8152
Misc. Info: Teaches at Shyam Kedar School of Indian Music http://www.bridgeport.edu/~kashyap/music.htm
Name: Daksha Kantaria
Email: kantaria@cox.net
Field: Bharatnatyam
Address: 61 Redwood Lane South Glastonbury CT, 06073 USA
Telephone: 860-633-2685
Misc. Info:
Name: Ajay Kapur
Email: akapur@alumni.princeton.edu
Field: Tabla, Sitar, Electronic Music
Address: New Canaan CT
Telephone:
Misc. Info: I play Tabla (Punjabi - Ustad Alah Rakha gharana) and Sitar (vilayat khan gharana). I am a musical scientist, studying the acoustics, and gestures of indian classical instruments to make New Digitized Indian Classical Instruments. I teach beginners who wish to learn about theka, raga, tabla, sitar...and other modern forms of improvisational music.
Name: Amee Karnavat
Email: Ameekarnavat@gmail.com
Field: Bollywood dance
Address: 300 Cold Spring Road, Rocky Hill, Ct - 06067
Telephone:
Misc. Info:
Name: Jithendra Kishore
Email: jithendra.kishore@rediff.com
Field: Violin - Carnatic
Address: 395 Brittany Farms Rd New Britain CT 06053 USA
Telephone: 860 770 6419
Misc. Info: Please contact for classes and fees (Jithendra is welknown
violin artist from Bangalore-India trained under his father Ananth S.V.
and higer education under Guru Vidwan A.Veerabhadraiah and Vidwan Anoor
S Ramakrishna Bangalore. He has performed in prestigious venues
throughout India, Srilanka, Ireland and USA. He offers classes in
Violin.)
Name: Kavita Mistry
Email: kavitamistry07@yahoo.com
Field: Kathak
Address: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Misc Info: I am a Kathak Dancer trained in the traditional styles of the Lucknow Gharana. Classes for children (beginners and intermediates) are held weekly in New Haven on the Yale Campus at a rate of $10.00 per hour tuition. Email for more information.
Name: Anindita Nanda
Email: soortaal@hotmail.com
Field: Odissi Dance, Hindustani Vocal, Semi-Clssicl Dance and Music, Folk Dances, Modern Dance
Address: Danbury, CT
Telephone: 203-798-7738
Misc. Info: Classes are offered at Soortaal, School for Indian classical and Semi-Classical dances and Music (Vocal), Bhajans and light music. Dance forms are : Odissi, Kathak, Folk, Semi-classical, Modern Dance. Music:Hindustani Clssical Vocal, Bhajans, Light Music, Semi-classical Music. Classes are being offered at Beginners, Intermedite, Advanced and Professional Level. Events oragnised to showcase budding artists. For further information contact: Soortaal@hotmail.com Anindita Nanda has Masters Degree in both the diciplines of Odissi and Hindustani Classical Vocal from Akhil Bhatratiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal and has been performing and teaching for the past 21 years.
Name: Urvi Pathak
Email: urvipathak@yahoo.com
Field: Bharatnatyam, folk, and filmi dance
Address: Newington, CT
Telephone: 860-667-2202
Misc Info: Urvi Pathak - Director: Satvikam Shivam School of Indian Cultural Heritage (since 2002)
# Recently two students completed training with arangertam.
# Nrutya Tirth - Degree in Bharat Natyam Dance Style
# Arangetram, Nartan School of Classical Dances, India - 1993
# Training in Folk dances
# Training in Indian Northern Classical Music
Name: Chazz Rook
Email: rudrasarode@yahoo.com
Field: Sarod, sitar, guitar, cello
Address: 80 Corning Rd. Norwich Ct.
Telephone: 860 7100347
Misc. Info: I have been studying and playing sarod since 1970. I started learning sarod at the Bhatkhande Music College in Lucknow under Shri Suprabhat Pal disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan, and Ali Akbar Khan. Three years in Lucknow Then one semester in Calif. with Khansaheb in 73, then back to India with Ustad Bahadur Khan in Kolkatta for next seven years. I am willing to teach anyone the basics of hindusthani raga, especially sitar and sarod. I would enjoy especially teaching young children who want to learn music.
Name: Zaki Salehi
Email: Ny1111@yahoo.com
Field: Tabla
Address: Waterbury, CT
Telephone:
Misc. I have been playing tabla for almost 15 years now from varios well known artists such Pandit Samar Sahai Ji, Joga Singh and many others. I will teach anyone who wants to learn this beautiful instrument. My rates are very flexible.
Name: Sangeetayan, School of Hindustani Music - Sagarika Kanjilal
Email: sangeetayan@yahoo.com
Field: Hindustani Vocal music
Address: Stamford, CT, and Westborough, Acton, MA
Telephone: (203)353-1667, (508)614-0356
Misc Info: Learn Hindustani classical including Khayal, Thumri, Tappa, Raga Pradhan, Bhajan, Najrulgeeti, and other traditional songs. Website - www.sangeetayan.org
Name: Debarati Basu Sarkar
Email: debarati_b@hotmail.com
Field: Classical and creative dance of India
Address: Debarati Basu Sarkar
Director/Dance Instructor/Choreographer- NRITYALAY (School of Indian dance)
Stamford, CT
USA
Telephone:
Misc. Info: At present classical Indian and contemorary dance class are going on for Senior and Junior group. Admission is going on. Dance shows and workshops are performed in tri-state area.
Contact: nrityalay@hotmail.com for details.
Name: Kasturi Senbhunia
Email: sbkasturi@gmail.com
Field: Hindustani Classical & Rabindra Sangeet
Address: 500 Cold Spring Road, Rocky Hill, CT
Misc. Info: I do offer classes for Hindustani Classical Music as well as Rabindra Sangeet and other Bengali songs. I got my classical taleem from Sm.Chhanda Goon,a disciple of Sm. Depali Nag and my Rabinrdasangeet taleem is from Sm. Chitralekha Choudhury and Sm. Swagatalaksmi Dasgupta.
Name: Mimi Seton
Eail: voicemadevisible@earthlink.net
Field: North Indian Classical Vocal
Address: 213 Wolfpit Ave. Norwalk, CT. 06851
Telephone: leave messages at 203 846 0119 care of Robert Hard, atty.
Misc. Info: www.voicemadevisible.com (soon to be updated to include my work with Indian music). I am a disciple of master yogi Sri Hanuman in Nice, France, who has given me his blessing to bring his teaching approach to Nada Yoga, North Indian singing, back to the US. I have been a voice and singing teacher for 25 years at such places as Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin Masters in Theatre program, University of Paris, and in a great number of schools through the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. My own vocal program in LA, which I closed in 2007, was called Voice Made Visible. I plan to reopen it in CT. I have been honored with a dozen awards for composition, writing, and performance and was the recipient of several grants ~ from the Rockefeller Foundation ~ and the state of California ~ for music composition and for teaching in social institutions, respectively. My current passion is to teach the fundamentals of North Indian classical singing and I look forward to sharing my great love for this music with interested students in Connecticut.
Name: Prashant Soni
Email: peter_roland2002@yahoo.com
Field: Vocal, tabla, Dhol, Dholak, Bamboo flute
Address: 42 Cattail Rd, Glastonbury, CT 06033
Telephone: 860-781-6034
Misc Info: I am graduated in Indian Classical vocal-tabla. Since 20 years, I continued working as a music teacher, freelance singer, composer and Indian percussionist. I am available for private music lessons, sound and yoga workshops, sound healings, solo and band Performances at weddings, parties, fundraisers and events. I practices spiritual and social activism through music that develops positivity in life and helps in healing.
Name: Miral Vaghela
Email: vaghelamiral@yahoo.co.in
Field: Indian Vocal, keyboard
Address: 575 ellsworth street, apt 121, Bridgeport, CT 06605
Telephone: 845-853-9701
Misc.Info : I play harmonium and I have done visharad from india in vocal. I took classes in india of Indian classical vocal and also bhajan, chanting of shlokas
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